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-Christos -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, September 06, 2006 11:49 AM To: [email protected] Subject: [R] Matrix multiplication using apply() or lappy() ? I am trying to divide the columns of a matrix by the first row in the matrix. I have tried to get this using apply and I seem to be missing a concept regarding the apply w/o calling a function but rather command args %*% / etc. Would using apply be more efficient than this approach? I have observed examples in the archives using this type of approach. Does anybody have a snippet of a call to apply() that would accomplish this as well? Thanks! seed=50 $a = array(rnorm(20),dim=c(4,5)) $b = matrix(a[1,],dim(a)[1],dim(a)[2],byrow=T) $a [,1] [,2] [,3] [,4] [,5] [1,] -1.3682810 -0.4314462 1.57572752 0.67928882 -0.3672346 [2,] 0.4328180 0.6556479 0.64289931 0.08983289 0.1852306 [3,] -0.8113932 0.3219253 0.08976065 -2.99309008 0.5818237 [4,] 1.4441013 -0.7838389 0.27655075 0.28488295 1.3997368 $a/b [,1] [,2] [,3] [,4] [,5] [1,] 1.0000000 1.0000000 1.00000000 1.0000000 1.000000 [2,] -0.3163225 -1.5196515 0.40800157 0.1322455 -0.504393 [3,] 0.5930018 -0.7461539 0.05696457 -4.4062113 -1.584338 [4,] -1.0554128 1.8167710 0.17550671 0.4193841 -3.811560 ------------------------------------------------------------ CONFIDENTIALITY NOTICE: This electronic mail transmission (i...{{dropped}} ______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. ______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
